Weekly Reads 10

Could dietary interventions like intermittent fasting improve the activity of stem cells, normally impaired with aging? New research led by Omer H. Yilmaz at MIT reveals that fasting may improve intestinal stem cell function, by helping you burn fats for fuel.

Over the past six months, I have gone on a surprisingly tough, time-intensive, and enlightening quest — to quit using, entirely, the products of just one company — Google. What should be a simple task was, in reality, many hours of research and testing. But I did it. Today, I am Google free, part of the western world’s ultimate digital minority, someone who does not use products from the world’s two most valuable technology companies (yes, I don’t use Facebook either).